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Ministers Form National Task Force to Repeal ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws
The Afro American ^ | March 28, 2014 | Maria Adebola

Posted on 03/28/2014 12:21:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, speaks about her support to eradicate "stand your ground" laws.

Enough is enough, says Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes, noting the list of young Black people dead or in jail in states where “stand your ground” laws are in place.

“Our young Black boys are being senselessly killed just for being Black teenagers,” said Holmes, who on March 25 announced the formation of the National Pastor’s Task Force, a nation wide coalition of 40 Black ministers who want to repeal or revise “stand your ground” laws.

“We have begun the fight in Florida and pledge to carry it across the nation,” said Holmes, pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Fla. and vice chairman of a Florida task force created in the wake of the shooting death in February 2012 of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

The coalition’s call for repeal of state laws allowing lethal force in self-defense is the latest organized opposition to “stand your ground” laws. On March 23, the Congressional Black Caucus issued a similar call.

Holmes was joined in his announcement at the National Press Club by the parents of Martin and Jordan Davis, an unarmed teenager who was killed in November 2012 at a Florida gas station amid a dispute over loud music coming from a vehicle in which Jordan was a passenger. Michael Dunn, a White man, was tried for the shooting he said he committed out of fear of being attacked.

“Black and Brown boys do not benefit from the stand your ground law,” said Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin.

Fulton said the movement to scrub the law will bring awareness to the issue that profiling still exists in America and added that she is very optimistic that the “stand your ground” law can be changed.

On March 20, a bill to repeal the “stand your ground” law was rejected by Florida lawmakers.

Also present were the parents of former U.S. airman Michael Jiles who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for firing warning shots at a White attacker.

The group has the support of civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, and former Fulton County (Ga.) Juvenile Court Chief Judge Glenda Hatchett.

“We have real victims, Trayvon Martin was real, [and] Jordan Davis was real,” said Crump. “I’m reminded of Ron Davis that said he and his son Jordan were watching the interviews with Trayvon Martin, [and] watching the rallies with Trayvon Martin, never knowing just a few months later that he will be sitting in the same chair that Sabrina Fulton, Tracy Martin had to sit in burying their 17-year-old child.

We are talking about our children, and if we don’t stand for our children nobody is going to stand for our children.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; blackkk; blackrage; blacks; florida; georgezimmerman; religion; selfdefense; standyourground; trayvon; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 03/28/2014 12:21:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Comments?


I guess everyone needs a hobby.


2 posted on 03/28/2014 12:24:06 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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Sorry. I just can’t take them seriously. If this “cause” keeps them out of sight, I’m happy. They can join the PETA people on my relevance list.


3 posted on 03/28/2014 12:25:18 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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As to her claim:

‘Black men NEVER get to use SYG!’ Wrong http://tinyurl.com/nboht35


4 posted on 03/28/2014 12:25:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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Kinda like the foxes forming a task force to outlaw chicken wire....


5 posted on 03/28/2014 12:25:47 PM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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To: cuban leaf

If they only worked this hard to get a real job.


6 posted on 03/28/2014 12:26:07 PM PDT by Zathras
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If they only worked this hard to get a real job.


That actually closely fits the first thing I thought. They are trying to milk this “cause” for money to support their day to day lives. Kinda like Jesse, et-al. Notice the source, though.

It might as well bee in “Ballroom Dancing Monthly”.


7 posted on 03/28/2014 12:27:26 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That should encourage the black teen flash-mobsters and knockout players.


8 posted on 03/28/2014 12:28:15 PM PDT by expat2
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Shrug, its a free country. They can waste their time and money pushing for anything they want, I suppose, but in virtually every “Stand Your Ground” state, the vast majority of voters support the law, and the politicians aren't going to risk their careers to second-guess them. So they really are tilting at windmills...
9 posted on 03/28/2014 12:28:33 PM PDT by apillar
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Well thank heaven the effectiveness of these Christian ministers can be extrapolated from the rectitude of their flock....


10 posted on 03/28/2014 12:29:55 PM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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If they only worked this hard to train their little boys not to be juvenille delinquints.


11 posted on 03/28/2014 12:30:38 PM PDT by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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She states: ‘Black men NEVER get to use stand your ground...

She is a bald-faced liar.

12 posted on 03/28/2014 12:33:13 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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“Our young Black boys are being senselessly killed just for being Black teenagers.”

I guess attempting to commit a violent felony against someone doesn’t count unless they are arrested and convicted before being shot by their intended victim.


13 posted on 03/28/2014 12:34:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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Stoopid knee grows. They need to work on their own community. Quit with the knock out game, quit robbing', quit dealin' drugs, make fathers pay for their illegitimate chillum, the list goes on and on

Oh wait......all of the above is whitey's fault

sorry.
14 posted on 03/28/2014 12:34:37 PM PDT by jrg
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Violence will continue until these parents and activists realize that there is a reason we need these laws for self defense. They need to end the crime in their own neighborhoods and homes before passing the blame onto someone else.


15 posted on 03/28/2014 12:35:14 PM PDT by formosa
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Ah, more “ministers” in favor of

“YT take your well deserved beating”

legislation.


16 posted on 03/28/2014 12:35:37 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Sure, so that the perpetrators of the knockout ‘game’ can continue ‘playing’ without anyone stopping them.


17 posted on 03/28/2014 12:35:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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If they only worked this hard to get a real job.

LOL! Post of the day. No, week!

18 posted on 03/28/2014 12:36:31 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Sybrina is still singing for her supper, I see... aren’t her 15 minutes about up?

Just imagine if she’d taught her thug kid NOT to be a thug...


19 posted on 03/28/2014 12:36:32 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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the ones that get shot aren’t good boys, ma’am.

we want our oung black thugs to be able to cause havoc without fear of being shot by victims. that’s what they are asking for in reality.


20 posted on 03/28/2014 12:37:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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